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Yellows and Blues

Tonight I sleep With the prince A yellow pill Prescribed by a Shrink It takes me down And makes me Dream of snakes And dragons And screaming pigs It is not pretty This sleep of mine I wonder if she Would come back in time Hollow though the slumber I call sleep Ah so humble I am afraid to peek. When I wake I take a pill It’s blue and makes me reel It’s suppose to make me happy It’s suppose to make life real But it never happens I feel so alone Like Elvis on the telephone Mama help me… “Sonny! Red! Get me the hell Outta here” And then I realize I never left the building Because the dream is real And reality is a dream And then I take the yellow pill It starts again It never ever seems to end.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2013




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Date: 8/18/2013 12:07:00 PM
comfortably numb, not. the 'reel' hell of Rx. cycling riding through of the yellow blue maybe read my poem green ;)
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Stephen Kilmer
Date: 8/18/2013 12:28:00 PM
I can see that...thanks lori for taking the time to comment. i'll be looking for you on the soup. Kilmer
Date: 8/16/2013 8:32:00 PM
Wow- and yet another amazing composition from a fantastic poet. I like the Elvis bit.. it really added to the genuineness of this piece. "Because the dream is real And reality is a dream"... Those lines are amazing. Always, Laura
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Stephen Kilmer
Date: 8/16/2013 8:37:00 PM
Your too kind. Thank you. I value your input because you are a great poet as well. This one just came out of me in about five minutes. Always Kilmer

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